Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEILArt is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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